MURDERED BY HIS DAUGHTER

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1975, 10 January 1907, Page 1

MURDERED BY HIS DAUGHTER

OLD MAN KILLED TO SAVE EXPENSE. I A crime has been committed near ‘ I Rambouillet which in its tragic horror 3 and simplicity of evil motives needs tho j. I pen of a Zola to describe. . I An old man of seventy-six named Bellangor was murdorod by his own daugh- ’ I tor bccauso she was tired of keeping him. I Bellanger was a wheelwright. His I murderess is tho youngest and was the I favorite of his seven children, all of whom are earning their own living in I different parts of the country. This daaghtor, Eugenio, married a man named I Faudoire a few years ago, and old BclI langer took his son-in-law into partnerI ship and lived with tho young couple. I The family was comfortably off, trade I was good, and tho old man had a little I income of £l2 a year. But as he grew old his sight got weaker, and about a year ago he gave up work, considering that his daughter, who had always lived with him, might well support him for tho last few years of his life. She thought otherwise, and tho poor old man was grudged every spoonful of food, lived in an outhouse, and was told by his daughter daily that she wished he wore dead.

Finally she ordered him to leave the house on Sunday. At six o’clock on Sunday morning, while the old man was still asleep, the young one went to see tho mayor, told him that his wife had made up her mind to turn her father

out of doors, and asked for his assistance. The mayor promised to give old Bellanger some easy work in his garden and a room to live in, and accompanied Faudoire home to tell the wife that he would take charge of her father. On the road the two men met Eugenie Faudoiro, who told them that old Bellanger had hanged himself.

All three went into the outhouse together, and found Bellanger lying on tho ground dead. His face was purple, and round his neck was a broken rope. Eugenie Faudoiro pointed to a screw in a beam on the ceiling, and said : “ Ho hanged himself from that, and the rope must have broken.” The mayor, not believing this story, sent for a doctor, who found that old Bellanger had first been stunned with a mallet or hammer,

and then strangled. There were signs of a struggle in tho room, there was a ! wound, on the back of the old man’s head, and round liis neck were the marks of fingers. Eugenie Faudoire had evidently attacked her father from behind, stunned him, and strangled him. She had then hung the body from the beam, and the cord had broken.

She denies everything, and declares that her father committed suicide. Both Faudoire and his wife have been arrested, and are in Rambouillet Gaol.